I have found it easiest to download pictures to my computer. A person can crop and/or resize your pictures, so they are smaller than 1 MB (my cell phone takes pictures that are about 8 MB), if applicable, and then post them. That way, the forum software holds onto the picture(s). Have you ever looked at old forum posts and pictures that describe something in interest to you – but the picture(s) are no longer available (which is typical for Photo Bucket, or other services)? It can be frustrating, especially if on a topic you need to know about, right then.
I also have a Photo Bucket account (and something else from Google) – but found it a hassle to get links posted.
I can’t give any good advice on sharing online photo’s – but I can at least let you know what I do with photos.
In most cases, I use “Paint” in my Windows computer. In my case, I don’t toss out photos (maybe I should with some . . .).
This is a screen shot of my Windows Explorer just now:
The system I use is (which works for my – might not work for you): first picture is from a recent car show. The unaltered picture (file name 20180609_120612.jpg), using this phone is 4032 x 3024 for a file size of 5.47 MB.
I cropped the picture then resized the picture to 2350 x 1083 for a file size of 1.0 MB – both within paint.
JPEG pictures are odd, and I don’t understand them exactly (and please –
don’t tell me, for I don’t want my head to explode) and resizing pictures – the file sizes are not linear.
Another example. The unaltered photo (file name 20180622_154607.jpg) is 3024 x 4032 for a file size of 4.00 MB. I cropped the picture some then resized the picture to 1635 x 2000 for a file size of 0.98 MB.
I generally will mark my photo names with an R (resized), C (cropped) or M (modified) – but that is what I do sense I have a lot of photos (maybe 11-12 GB worth) on file – not counting PDF versions of my FSM (Factory Service Manuals), Part Manuals or magazine articles I’ve saved (which is another 25-26 GB).
When resizing pictures - I use my Windows Snipping tool to take this picture (titled Picture Pic.JPG). This picture size is 415 x 292 for 37.5 KB. For illustration purposes, this file is a bit small for me to read so I opened it in Photo, went to “Resize”, and this dialog box came up. Click on Pixels button (red arrow – which I also added in Photo). I then bumped this up to 750 x 527 which gave me a file size of 117 KB.
There are other methods to use and some might be faster and give better results. Photo is built into Windows and it gets what I want done.
I’m getting older and my eyes don’t work as well as they once did – so I appreciate larger and detailed pictures.
This picture was also taken with Windows Sniping tool and is how I have my photos organized. Does anyone recognize the organization pattern?
BudW